Hi
cpu memhd wrote:
I believe therre are multiple approaches to this, depending on your distro and version.I asked this question before but received no replies, I will ask again, if anyone knows…
Is it possible to create environment variables in linux/unix like you would in DOS using CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT? That is, a variable that is accessible to any subsequent running program?
I vaguely remember reading sometime back that this was not possible
because of fundamental differences between DOS/Win and Unix. While I do
know you can set environment variables in /etc/profile, the problem is
they are only accessible to a logged in user, not the system.
SuSe used to have a file, /etc/rc.config, which was sourced from their set up environment. In more recent versions this is located in /etc/sysconfig, distributed over a multitude of configuration files. For other distros there must be similar constructs.
The problem is here, each daemon process can choose what environment it likes to import/use. And of course you are free to source these in your interactive environment.
HTH Erich
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